Editing Cairo Conference (section)

=== Post-war plans ===
China's demand at the Cairo Conference to recover lost territories was subsequently endorsed by Stalin,<ref name=":8"/> to end the Japanese puppet Manchukuo after the war.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last=pixelstorm |date=2013-05-02 |title=Staying There: Mena House, the Summit of Cairo |url=https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-148/staying-there-mena-house-the-summit-of-cairo/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=International Churchill Society}}</ref> Roosevelt and Chiang discussed making Dalian a free port after the war, and at the [[Yalta Conference]] in February 1945, one of the agreements reached between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was for Dalian to become a free port under international supervision,<ref name=":2"/> but the decision of the Yalta Conference to make Lushun a Soviet leased military port resulted in a loss of territorial sovereignty as announced in the Cairo Declaration.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":8"/> The day after the Cairo Declaration, the provisional government of Korea issued a statement thanking the Cairo Conference for guaranteeing Korean independence.<ref name=":11"/> In order to make Korea free and independent, Roosevelt planned to establish an international trusteeship as a transitional phase of arrangement, and his proposal was accepted by Stalin at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences.<ref name=":2"/>